Policy

Workers’ Party President Michael Donnelly addresses 2017 Ard Fheis

Closing address of Workers’ Party Ard Fheis 2017 delivered by Party President Michael Donnelly What the Workers’ Party represents As a product of all the working people of this island, the Workers’ Party proudly stands as the vanguard force in their struggle with capitalism and their fight for justice, jobs and equality. But we also [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:18+00:00November 27th, 2017|

Reported trauma centre closure plans are out of touch with reality says Workers’ Party

The Workers’ Party have said that reports in yesterday’s Sunday Business Post (19/11/17) that emergency departments will be closed in three Dublin hospitals and several others including Cavan, Naas and Portlaoise are completely out of touch with reality. Workers’ Party Meath representative Seamus McDonagh said the report was most alarming and if implemented would inevitably [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:18+00:00November 20th, 2017|

Dáil & Seanad should sit through the night to remove tenancy loophole

70 Cork apartment tenants face eviction as result of landlord "renovations" loophole The Workers’ Party has called on the government to put an emergency bill through the Oireachtas to urgently close a loophole which allows landlords to evict tenants where major renovations are being carried out in a rented home. Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan [...]

2017-11-16T10:05:05+00:00November 16th, 2017|

Under no circumstances should Ireland join new EU military body PESCO

Seamus McDonagh The Workers’ Party has said that under no circumstances should Ireland become a member or associate of the new Permanent Structured Defence Cooperation body (PESCO). Seamus McDonagh, the Workers’ Party’s Meath representative, said that PESCO represented a further step along the road to a full-blown EU army and defence structure in [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:18+00:00November 15th, 2017|

Tynan condemns Sinn Féin support for Cork City budget

Cork city councillor Ted Tynan (Workers’ Party) has condemned Sinn Féin’s decision to back the council’s annual budget last week (Thursday, November 9th). Speaking in reaction to the budget, Cllr. Tynan said: “I voted against the budget for the same reason Sinn Féin said they had voted against the budget in the past - It [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:18+00:00November 13th, 2017|

Calls for resignation of Dublin City Council CEO in wake of rental accommodation revelations  

Dublin City Councillor Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, North Inner City) has this morning (Friday, 3rd November) called for City Council CEO Owen Keegan to resign, in the wake of last night’s Prime Time Investigates documentary on standards in the private rental sector. Commenting on the situation, the Workers’ Party councillor said: “There is absolute clarity [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:19+00:00November 3rd, 2017|

WP of Ireland address to St. Petersburg meeting marking centenary of Great October Revolution

19th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties, St Petersburg 2-3 November 2017   “The 100th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution: The Ideals of the Communist Movement, Revitalising the Struggle against imperialist wars, for peace, socialism.”   Comrades, The Workers Party of Ireland is honoured to be present in Russia on this historic [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:19+00:00November 3rd, 2017|

ICWPE statement on 100th anniversary of the October Revolution

STATEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNIST INITIATIVE On the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution   The Initiative Communist Parties greet the working class, all working people of Europe on the occasion of the centennial of the greatest event of the XX century – the October Revolution! October 1917 proved in practice the correctness of the Leninist [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:19+00:00October 24th, 2017|

Chartered Surveyors’ apartment build estimates are double the cost of building public housing

The Workers’ Party have stated that apartment build estimates released today (Tuesday) by the Society of Chartered Surveyors in Ireland (SCSI) are more than double the cost of the state building apartments on its own land. Reacting to the figures released by the SCSI, Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party), said: “It is astounding that, in [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:19+00:00October 24th, 2017|

Teacher shortage should be addressed by reducing college fees – not through harebrained retraining schemes

The Workers’ Party have said that Minister for Education Richard Bruton’s proposal to encourage ‘homemakers’ to retrain as secondary school teachers wilfully ignores the obvious causes why young people might not choose teaching as a career. Speaking following the Minister’s comments today (Friday) at the annual conference of the National Association of Principals and Deputy [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:19+00:00October 20th, 2017|